An 18-Year-Old Died Reportedly While Taking a Selfie in Yosemite National Park

On Wednesday, September 5, a teen from Israel was reportedly taking a selfie from the top of an 820-foot cliff while on vacation in California's Yosemite National Park, when he took a deadly fall (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-falls-to-death-in-yosemite-national-park-while-reportedly-taking-selfie/).

Tomer’s mom told Israel’s Channel 10 News that he had been on a two-month trip to the U.S. before joining the Israeli army, a trip that is common among young people before they join, according to The Jerusalem Post. His body is being transported back to Israel to be buried, the newspaper reported.

Tomer’s death is the third in the park this summer. In June, two visitors died while climbing El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

Tomer isn’t the only teen to die in a cell-phone related accident this week — a 15-year-old girl died in New York City after falling from a fifth-floor fire escape while reportedly attempting to retrieve her phone from a locked room, the New York Daily News reported. And in June, two tourists took a fatal fall from a cliff overlooking a popular beach in Portugal while attempting to take a selfie.